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,~ ~: • A R n 3 Dublin, 2%V iii rd. 1.) 1.1bi201), 2. Dublin, s Waterlinti. (;1 STOCKS ^4l( A r TW% L'• a O'CLOCK 66kt.. Omnium _ 6 . • Sat PM QUIS DlCfitit VAI.SUM ALYI'EAT ? A. 1.) () MON!)AY, OCTOBER 15, 1810. I.POLIT AN iAN GRATIFYING INTELLI GENCE FROM POLi iUG It is with the most sit cere"i44fadion that we are this-day enabled to co,ntuotticatelti our Readers the ' result tit, I ati at ck made ► the Fr , itch Aral)/ up.t• tic; Al/led:At tny on ler Lord WELLINGTON. Cap tain NURGH, one ot. his Lordship's Ads..de-Camp, -arrive d ti t, n yet -;(l.ty with , he Dispatches. cr!..:l. , uvr- in his )1 jest y's ship Wearier, Lleutenatir Git 4EN , and 'landed at -Portreath on Satur,i.y.— W - den - Ca,.tain .Bursit artietl in town yesterday Lord HAW'KESbURY of CoMbe Wooi, in anise qu-nre of wtitell the order tor firi n g the Park and wer ousts , jid not teach town till about fin: Thu tollov.ing Letter was sent Id ill,- Mpiuu, in corder that the intelhgenee might be mate puhlie icl 'lie u•tt 11 mannyr; sift • t)nettecl to be at . ins viia a, few miles off, SO I" . • thaat the Letter wsts not posted up at the Mansiou. house yesterday. Doi•: ril lagast MC% Oct. 14. 1 4 01:-D—L have the honour Co acayiaint your . Lordship, that Capt ant liviton, Aid-de-Camp to Lord Vv'e L.LINL4 ot4,*arrived at ni) uffiee thts cArening with the int elhgenee of the French arms, under Mar shal MasSENA, havio crusied the Cris on the T6th, in Ulu iitivboarttu6ciof S ,nCombatjos; theadvanced gu.nd ot t ;e B!itislt arkny retited in consequence to +.e position fixed upon on the 10p of the Siet ra de Bu zaen, .where the hole of the British ar.uy were then posted. enemy were .ttccupied during the 26th iu cutleltin.; the w hate_ of_ their army ; and at six o'clock iu the mot - ping of the 27th, made two des p.:rote attacks thi the posntoti ut the allied army; the one on t:,r;fighl;the other on Um left of the highest point 'he sietra de Blie,CO. r. ,e attach tpon the ti k ;ht ;nide by the VA o divi,isoris oft 4e 2d c,;rps of t 1 4 ,1 French army on that part ot the Sierra occu pied by tha 3d dnision of infantry, () o edit, s ion of French infantry arrived at the top of the rid,; , , when i vta, atta..ked in the most, gallant manner by Or , e regimen's, t wo of British and one oi Porto gnese, which JrUVe the enetnyi division from the ativantag<:ous ground they baclobiained. The other division of the 2cl corps Of the-enemy a . tacked fur ther on the right this divlst , m. was likewise re pulsed heture it readied the top of tile by a Bri tis!: regiment and t btivde of Portuguese. infantry. On the 1.. t, toe ens tny attackebovlh 3 divisio:is of InfAntry ot the Gth corps, that part Of the Sierra oc cupied by the light diviS,ion of the British infantry and .by a Uri g ,de of Portu g uese infantry. • One ttivision of jufantry only ade my progiess towards the top of . th 4 hilt, an i the) w 17. imm-diately cliargc.l w,ith the bayonet, and driven .a o wn t .vith.imMense luss The snstained by the enealy .n l.l4atta4 of h _ has, been ei.orrhOus jt pt: Me. Le, General MAUCU N , are statedi o ha . ve. been wound net, ana General . SE:awa way tal;eti prisoner by the :becrieginient With 3 Culdhels, 3. Oificeis, and 250 men. .The - t..nerny left g 00Q killed •on• the field of battle, and the prisoners:: atilde,erters represented the 1&.9 hi wounded as fmi'nen4e. ". l'he.enenvy did . rynt „fterwards renew the . at tack, lawrnoved:a lai'ge body GI h:frntry and cavalry •frimp iitelt t of his- Celllre'tii tk e ie.r, on the ro..J which lath iron, Nluntagq over the mountains to wards Oporto. Lord WeLLINGTON naving remil r 6 hclieve that the eLic:l)) would encivavoiir to turn 'the' 'firinks of the Combined ann . its. by •that-road, cliretted • Colonel ' TicAgt• with his division ..to patch to-Sartiao,, but he was unior iunately sent. - :roimcl to Oporto, by a G.tberal. coin. :trianditi'in 'the Ncltith - ;' 2udnotwitti , t;4n - tling the el froashe n r nide to arrive time, be (Id not reaphSar duAill the 28ih at night, atter the enemy was isi .possession of the gruon 4 l.. A; ii was prtib,lble that in .the COurAC Of, the night uf the 28 t h the eheiny throw hie whole army upon that road, Lord Wgi,- NGTON' was 111dtlec4 - to iithdraw from the Sierra 'de-Stizaco, and the whole, army, with the excep ,tiolvof Advanced guard, was'on We 30th, ou the lett .of the Mondego....- • • Lord NVELLtdi:os speaks in the Lighest terms oldie conduct of every part of the ainty,.lltid l.: . 4ents the Porttilese troops as worthy of cont , no ng in the same ratiks ith British troops, in the inicrest . . . ce.ttse.v hid they afford the best hopes of say - r, 4 . :file loss of the British amounts to I Major', eTtlin, 4 Lkutenants, t Ensign, and . D7 rank and . i.:e, kultd ; Le itenr.nt-0010 (.4., 5 MajOis,. IG Captains,' awl 430.ratik-tind ounded ; and 1 (;'vain tai6sing. The Joss 04 the Pd,rtugueSeatnoOnts to 4 Cipt3ilis, l 2 Lieutenants, q Subalterns, and it 2 rank and tile killed i 5 Captaium, 18 &halter:ls, and .478 Avt,unded. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, " Your Lor'di(iip's most ot). nt " Humble Serv:,nt. " LI V EIiVUOL," " To the Right Hon the Lord Mayor." 11:16 morning Government published.the follow- LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINdtiK MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1810. Downing -street, OR. 14, 1810. A Dispatch, 01 Willah the following i• a copy, was received thii day At the E4ri of Liverpool's Office, addressed io his I., , rdship, from Lieutenani•Generai Lord Viscount Weiiiogi,o, • K. B. dated Coimbra, the 30th S;ptember, 1810. MY Lotto, Willie the enemk was advancing from GAerico and Franeoio upon Vizett, tbe ditEl - en - t . divisions u 1 militia and Ordenanzli wete rst eiuy.d upon their &alio and rear; a•id Colonel Trriui, with hi divi sion; atocked toe es.4ot of the iniiitary 'chest awl ioseive ry, ocar Tojal, ou (Le Guth iust. took ts.vo Officer.' atld one ;hundred pri soners, but the enemy ."coLeCied a force trutu front anti r.-dr, which ob.i6ed lino to retire a6aitt to wares tile Douro. uilderstand that the enemy's communication with Aituelgit is comrletely cut ; and he pussr3ses only the ground on which bts arm) stands. My Uniatches of the 29in inst. .011 have in tanned you of the . mca.ht-L-s'wh:ei. I 'have adOpted, and which ,were in progress..tobud the army to this'neig.ibourtiood, and it possibl: to prevent the enetily tromobtaining possession of this town. at the Ttsi the enemy's advanced guard ptiAt:d on to St. Cawb tido, as Inc junction of ihe . rivers riz and .1.)o ; and BAgadier Getierai F c.k retnt.d across the tortner, and iir i l b adier Genets) Crawford at Morta;oa. t,avtcig deitto)ed Lridgel over 0°69 two livers. lisc ci.eLny's ad,vaLl-ed guard c.. 4 *,0 the C,ik, ..baviug tLe budge, 11 (Ile 1.3,1, and tilt; wLule of the iiiti curls was .ulletted oii the oilier side of ilk: and !here tore withdrew t;ie cmairy through the Sieira de tius . acu, wiai the exception of three stoadruns, as the gtvum,l was uuf,3%,ouratilr tur the upeiatious of that arm. On the 25th, the whole of the 6th and of the 2d cups 4..t0,,ed the Criz, in the heighbourhoott of St., Cainbadao; and .Oug.idier-Getietal Paca's brigade: retired to the position,whieli I had fixed upon for •Ite army oa tite . top- of Siert nt. _us aco . These troops were 1011otked in this movement by the whole of the corps of. N2y . and &Inter, (the bill andi2d) but it was co .ducted by Brigather-li.neral Craw ford-with great regularity, and the troop took their position withour sustaining any lo,s of importance. The 4th ,Portuguese Cacadores.which had retired 'on he right of the other truops, and the vet - Inds of Lie 3d (10,1 i, of intaulry, which were . pusted ut St. Antonio de Camaro; uuuLr Major Smith, of the 4ittli, were engaged with t.ie advance of Reg an:4's curps in-the at tei n6Ou, and the fOrtner s'lievkd ti,At r s!eahinel'and gallantry winch others of ,the Portuguese troops have since inanne,ted. The Sierra is a high which . extends Gem the Alotioev in a northerly dire:4ton about 4ililtti.• • .- At the. highest point of the ridge, about two miles from Its tel is the convent end garden of busacn,. The 6.4raut 4usicu is COt.. neettd by a uluutitatu .Us traoi ut . cOtiolry witlL the Sierra de •Clraaluia, Wtocn extends in a 'Lloilli ealterly direction IleyytKl Vizcu, and s.paratcAL the valley ut toe :M.) .dgo front tits valley of 'Douro. On theieft at the. Munclego, nearly in a liac With toe S.eira de 8u34c0 is s atiotkeyitige of the saute description, wtiielt : ts.ealicd toe Sicira, de Mutcella, 'covered by the river - Alen, and conned ed by i4i114 nwt.ihtitstioits kraOit watt the 'sieria ali r t,H7ll4. - . . Ail thd roads to Coimbra frbarthe Eastward, lead' over 0 1,e or pi lier 01 these Sends. They art: very difficult (or the passage of au army, the appruich to the top of the ridge on both si,les being inoutipin . 1 ous. As the enemy's whole army was on the right of the Alundt.go, and as it was ei,tdditt th.mt h 4 in- waded to force our Nositiuu,llLllll-Genera! , 1.-11 , 1 crossed that river, by a short nito.coent to his uti . the morning of the 26th, 1 aviog Colomi .1, 4 e 01, with his bnode on the Sierra de Marcell,t, 11:e tightoi *he - army; •atid Nlajor-Gen era l ' COW l'Ade, u itii 11' S. Division of Portuguese C tvalry, kid the 13th Light Dragoons in iiun't of the Alva, to . . • . ia l lserve and ohee;i: tl.e movements of the enemY's cavalry on the Nloudego. With ,this eiccepliUn; the whole army was colie,.'ked upon the Sierra de 'l3osaeo, with the British c.ivalry observing the :lain in th►e rear of its lett, aiod tile road leading from Mor, iagoa to Qporta, throt2,ll the mountainous tra& 'which cot►t►eets the Si6tra de 4usaco with' the Sierra de Cat - 0111)1s. . • The eight corps joined the eneriV in our front on 2Gth; but lie did not woke any serious attack on that day. The light troops on both sides were en gaged throughout the line. At soCut the morning of the e7th, the enemy made two desperate attdck,, upon our psition, the one on the right, the other on the lett of the highest point of the Sierra. The attack upon the right ma, made by two divisionS of the 2d corps, on that pail ot the Si,..tra occupied by the 3J divi , ion of infanny. ,One of French infantry arri ted at the top of the ridge, when it was attacked in the most galla,.i manner by the 88th regiment, under the command of the lion. Lieut.;-Col. Walhee ; and thw 45th . re giment under the command of the kiunour46 Lieutenant-Colonel Meale, and by the 8 b Punkt guece regiment under the command of LiewOtani- Colonel Douglas, &retied by Major-General Pitton Thee three corps advanced with the bayonet, and drove 'the enemy's dbision oat the .adviin- tigeous ground w ich they had obtlined. The ether di%ision of the 2d corps attacked furthet the right, by the tuad_ Jeatihig by" St. Antonio cl , - Canino, last, in fr, nt 'of Major-General P doze's giv stun. Has divi,ion , was repiiis d be!oLe a cJold 'etch the 'top of the ridge, by tee 74tn' regiment, ender thecommand u: lite Hcins . Laebtenant-C !french, and the brigade of Portu,gotese infantry; tinder the command o: Colonel . Champennutid, direded -by Colonel Ma; kiniton, Major-Gt-neral Leith also tnov,-td to his left, to toe: support or •Ma. jur-General Picton, anti aiJcl - 1 in the 7 fe..t . nt the enemy on this post, by the 3LI battali n 11nya!i, the 14 battalion, and the Sd battalion re&- men t. Iu tivse attacks Maj Getierrili Leith att.! PiiEtoti; - polottek Mackinnon and Chainne linonci; of Por ttinest- %ervice, who was wounded, 'Litut. W.-tfLice, the Hon. - Lieut, Ccl. AletW,tietti. Sutton Of the gth Porttig - ti,:se rekiment, Major Smith of the 45th regiment, wbb iiiitortunately' kill ed,' Liout. Colonel Dougla4, - ai(d' Major-Vrrnitigha of the Bth Portuguese regiment, di‘;iiiigttiAleci . them selves. Major General 'Piduti rep - Offs of the gill and 2.lst Portuguege 'regiments, eclintniti , led s by' Lientenant-Colonel Sul ton,' - atiLtby -Lietaiehi!a.;Co lood de Arouj Bacellar, and the ..Poriugtiee Artillery, cotinnan4ed by Lteutenant-Colotiel Atent , child. I have also to mention iaa particular manner the ; condo& ol Captain D,tnsey, of -the 6.8 01 Major-General Leith reports ilit , tood 6ondtl-3•Of the Royals, tat battalion 9th,..,and cilbattalion, 38th. regiment.; and beg to assure your Lojilfrp, that I never witnessed a more. gallant', 'Attaci'than that made.by the 38th, 45th, and' Bth Porruguese ruent, on the enemy's division which had reached the ridge of the Sierra. Uu the left, the enemy attacked with tbree-ai'- vi,ions of infantry )(if the 6ih : corps, that part of. the Sierra occupied by the left division, commanded by Brigadier-Getteral Crawford, and by the brigade of POriugoesO.infantry, commanded by 13,igaclia-Ge- Aleral Pack. • ...• One division of infantry only made any - Trtogress towards the top , of the bliVand,tiey Were imme- Charged with the,. bayonet 7by Crawford, -with the 48th, 52d, aimi;bsth regiments; and , the 3d Portuguese CagadOres, and tiriven down • . • with,immense loss., • . Brigadier General, Cletuan's brigade tifPortognose inratitry, which Wis in reserve; 'was lni l / 4 ted up to the ht of. Be aguiler stlepurt 1 ~ division,' and a ;battalion of the . loth Portuguese regiment, 'under' the• command of l.;t2oteltant'Co-. lone! M ache:in k made a. gallant and suCeei.ful - eharg ' e , upon a body of another division of t.,e eneiny,. whiat was enleavou.ring to pen;:rate. in ',That, ,quar. ter. lu. t attack Bri! ,a(livr General Crawfurd, I,ien. rs tenant CtiVitteh 13 , ekssith of the 95.11; :too Barclay QI the 521;and Ofitcelsof tl4 lunnits engaged, thstingutcheO•theinte,sA„, Besides these 'attacks . , the-I , OA , troops of ttte . twu arnlies‘ were etigned tin'Obiijo4t the ' and the. h Potouguese . Cacadafp,, e ,Lnd tie 4p ... q t ,4 ldth regivettisi directed by ilrigadler Gerivraiyat'k, and C3tilitianded by Lteurch Int -- et.AVI de Ilk-0o Bonitu, Leuteniot ..11,rrn• strung, .Hewed areal sttaoittess sari ~gatla>at,y. Ihe fuss wustaitied by the e - :entfr t ttis''a'ttatlt on the 271}. has Wen ' ' uudattand that the-e;ueral of' D 4 is . 'on Metle aid .Grunt-tal. Maucnn ate s,wpiind4 afiLi GeLral Siillol4 Wi4S tAdo inisch,er by we .52d regiinent, and • . . three colon6ls'; ilifrtt:tbrte •oEcirs- ttio 133/1• dred and fifty tneh.• Jd :Ile enemy tweithousinid nijon the of balite, and I - OniletshifidnfrOm t lie • prisoner§ 213 deserters that the 104 in wounded is itr;tvense' • The enemy di not renew his attack, es' , ''" p I nting by ilke'Llre 04 bis.light•troops, on the Bth, I ' 6 ' 14. • moved a 'large - body 'of .intantry- and cav j ilt° the - left'cif his..cent4 to . the rear, from I,IIICOCC , saw• p is 'caalry in march on the f o l d which W all from Moytaxi . avyer the l'iVnititains tovt arcs ()por t°, Having thought it . piobible Out lie wouid en* 'deai'our to 'turn by Unit 2.,.r0ad, 1 I ' la iireEted C010w..1 Trant, With division °( • • Militia; 't9 roarcit, to Sardlo, with the iote:4011" that ,he should occupy those•• mountains) but ' unfintutritely he was si-nt 'r lon.l by ()port° br the General Otfic4 commanding. its the . N o o' in consequence, of a 5tn311 •,.detachment of 11.0 enimy being in possession of St. Pedro.de Sul , e and, 'polititbstand ng the t•fforts v '-itich -be l tv d to arrive in • time, he did nut; S„irdau .11 the 2s , h at night, 'atter the enetni Was in Posse'. sirm of toe ground. As it %as prob....hie that in the cOnise-,of night of the to h the entnty would throvt 111 , 1 wt Ole army up n that r4,.a(i which be 011111 .the ra db B , naco, a• d •teath Coimbra tif the higtriro.a.l- to °pito, aud ;1111s the O pt wouia have been • exposed to be. cut off from ll l at • - town, Or to a vpqta1,...0a7.;4110 ', fitrotira.ble gr.tind Aba"asillid'reilif6r6%thents . ill it,' r4( ' I was induced to co. The enetny...dra,l3,es at eleven- . a t' ut - the cu'id fie w ade .tl3. March expected. 'ath a i re d.: • At - elatis, in the road frtan - Opor o, to C° l6 ' i) yeskli4ay ;. and the whole army, 5 :,, e . ; into` j thiotigh the mountains . ; unt!ei l cor"n l3t be however„ was already in Couloir:* All se Siercrile iithaco atithile Sea ; 3 •'" $A , 1 1 ,,1 e , of it, with the exci ption of the adv 3r/a guard, is th.s dtlypa,ll.e of the . ..N.10 - ..dego• f Altlibu b li'lroln• tire un;ortnna - e cifeurn4Ta' ce • ° , the delay. of Colonel ~ T rhot'l. rn . riv-,1- •at Sara` „am areliensive that I shall not succeed 'jog he d object wliteli Iv had in - in p.t Sing Monde - go, and in• occupying the Sierra de 13usaccb do. not' re g ret my'•haviug done so. This movoll ps 4l :-has 'afforded me a favoilrable OPp, , r-Unity.O 4 . t ing the enciny ihe (lescrip.int of troops of tops arras} itsr: composeol7 - 11 has brought itte F °lL /te for I guese levies into kte enemy first in" an ; advantageous s.tuation ; al /d babe proved hat - the : V.ollWe - wl=ii,h has Wen A P W t With them, has, not been. thrown Bn-t ii,ey are worthy of contending in the save waft British troops, in this - ioteresting `' au which they ..ff.rd the 4est hopes:. o f saving. • l'hroughout the„Oontest upon the Sierra, a'-`1 13 s y o all the previous Marches, and in thise have since made, the whole army have CO r j, themselves in the most regular mintier. ,It iugly all the operation's have beets c irried 011 , iv e ease, the soldiers have suffered no pri , ation'' see . n 'Undergone no unnecessary fatigue, there IP'. h est nolOss of stores, and the aria,' is in the Jib spirits. tbe have received, throughout the serv ice' t, greatest assistance from the G.,:neral and Stai o vet s. e iV 64 m Lieenint-General Sir Brent Spencer 1 115 • i 4 D. we the assiStatite'which his 'experience enahit.- ht tOarfOrd . me, and lam particularly d bied" ll l - I ,‘ e .Adjutant and the Quartek•-Master dcneril , an d ' 4 , 0; deers of, their,. deportrnents,and• :o Li, 1 11e° 11 11. 3 i cl Colonel Batiirst,f '. ',l up .. tile'.of - fi - s:.'er's Of my P' rs ik i , Stat . :ft-_to 13i-igadier•Petneral-14 ,- ;*'orth, and O e ca 1 0 1" totery ) and particulaily. ; :Lieutenant . 0 0 PietOrr, Captain Chain:nap, apajb e °fri t :els °I , ftoyal„ling'ners.l 1 1 ) . .I mast likewise Ifftittion 141 • 41 Kennedy; a il - Qifievri of the ,Cotnwisoar,t4,, depadlliest. been carried on most succvsst . ully. 11 14 1 I should nor do justice to•tlie service, or ~ ° -I -own.feelm ,, s, it I did not take this opportu niLl drawing yuar Lordslitp‘.s attention to' ti,c-u-er the MArAlat Pieresford. ‘. To him, excliisirely, Portuguese Government , isdue ¶be metit idl na.* formed, 41scipl,neS„ a. d etuippe , l ,gueSe army, laas now-she . n itaelt etwaging and de:e o • ° .. r; I 4ave, be;;Ves,.reCelVc . j.:6,otll .- ,tim, two- „ - 11 eiperie"F-' abilities, and know ltdge 6MT C e tu — a?ford me. - • ; ••, sel-4,4 has . maileilo'move !Tient in r- 153 madtirl, or In the sioct , • diessed yOur Lord‘tiip List. 'fp My" last acoovaits Ilona Cadiz 2N of to. .. . . insfairt, '4: ' ' d . , ,.. cid I it:Close a Rettirtl'of the ':0 1 -t.%13 and Wooll .1, Sb tile Al; el giniiei tdthe courie cJi the iSLO) ro ! I ') felt Ip rec ,ct urr ti le Frer Lor,j ati c t lith tn~~: 1 6~i, 1 ~~.."'°~ 1 611, , Ln! , 434